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They develop the most tenacious alloy on Earth

By: Inspenet, December 15, 2022.
Engineers in the USA They obtained a metal alloy with the highest fracture toughness ever measured in a material on Earth. The material, made up of chromium, cobalt and nickel (CrCoNi), has extremely high strength and ductility. Furthermore, and counterintuitively, these properties increase as the material cools, suggesting interesting potential for applications in extreme cryogenic environments, the developers reported.

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